Flesh

Joe Dallessandro plays Joe, a sweet young married man whose wife sends him out on the streets to hustle sexual favours so she can pay for her girlfriend's abortion. An underground film classic, it not only introduced cinema to the male as frontally-nude sex object, but it did so by fleshing out the flesh and transcending exploitation. Joe gives an entirely sincere and natural and charismatic performance in an influential, touching and funny film. This is where a generation of filmgoers fell in love with him...and where subsequent generations continue to do likewise.